Additional Course Content

Science Museum, London, UK

Winton Gallary

Prompts

  • What was the topic of MONYWISE magazine in 2001?

  • What software was before Microsoft Excel and used to “Balance the Books?”

  • What were “Napiers Rods” used for?

  • How long ago was the first pocket calculator created?

  • How long ago were dice created?

  • When did the The Times decise construction needed people with pratical and mathematical knowledge?

  • In what year did Galton develop the “head spinner” machine?

  • In what year did the “Merrill-Palmer Scale of Mental Tests” first devised?

  • In what year did the Pension Slide rule get created?

  • What software are used as examples of “software changes” that started advancing mathematics?

Guide: https://learning.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/resources/mathematics-the-winton-gallery-guide/?utm_source=GBOP&utm_medium=portal&utm_campaign=gallery_guide

Information Age

Guide: https://learning.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/resources/information-age-guide/?utm_source=GBOP&utm_medium=portal&utm_campaign=gallery_guide

The Medacine Gallaries

Guide: https://learning.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/resources/medicine-the-wellcome-galleries-guide/?utm_source=GBOP&utm_medium=portal&utm_campaign=gallery_guide

Papers

We will be reading some publications during the course. These include

Galton, Hereditary Character and Talent, MacMillan’s Magazine, 1865. (n.d.). Retrieved September 23, 2024, from https://galton.org/essays/1860-1869/galton-1865-macmillan-hereditary-talent.html

Hogben, L. (1933). The limits of applicability of correlation technique in human genetics. Journal of Genetics, 27(3), 379–406. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02981751

Mather, K., Moran, P. A. P., & Smith, C. A. B. (1967). Commentary on R. A. Fisher’s paper on The Correlation Between Relatives on the Supposition of Mendelian Inheritance. Population Studies, 20(3), 372. https://doi.org/10.2307/2172683

Pearson, K., & Moul, M. (1925). The Problem of Alien Immigration into Great Britain, Illustrated by an Examination of Russian and Polish Jewish Children. Annals of Eugenics, 1(1), 5–54. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-1809.1925.tb02037.x

They can be access via this Google Drive link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1r1lwSBuU-av0UW9KWtHxrubdPYlm319o?usp=sharing Note that this is only accessible to Cornell College students due to copyright but many of these papers are free online.